The apple is the great standard among fruits, as wheat is among grains, or potatoes among vegetables. Some localities, of course, give better returns than others, but everywhere the apple is looked to for a crop as is the potato, and it depends much on the cultivator's skill in managing and selecting varieties as to the amount of returns. Niagara County, N. Y., is nut down this year at 180,000 barrels, and in that county one tract of apple orchard produced for sale 600 barrels of fruit, which sold at $3 per barrel. One tree of Rhode Island Greenings produced twenty-six barrels. H. T. Brooks, Esq., at the New York State Fair, during one of the evening discussions, gave, among other evidence of the profits of apple growing, the following:

"A tree in Middlebury gave 11 barrels; four trees in LeRoy, 13 barrels each. Patrick McEntee, of Perry, took 14 barrels of Baldwins from one tree, and sold them to A. W. Wheelock for $60. Mr. True, of Castile, took 15 barrels of Gilliflowers from a single tree. Enos Wright, of Middle-bury, sold the product of two trees for $100. Two years ago Mr. Hammond, supervisor of Middlebury, sold the product of 33 trees of Northern Spys for $900. C. Cr" akhite sold the apples on less than four acres for $1,000; they were immediately resold for $1,500. He said that Edmund Morris, the admirable author of 'Ten Acres Enough,' who, by - the - by, with the usual consistency of preaching farmers, had added 13 acres to his ' Ten,' wishing to do some tall bragging, had told us of 20 apple-trees that paid their owner $225 one year. Here, said Major Brooks, is a story to match: Robert McDowell, of York, Livingston County, has 22 trees, grafted nineteen years ago to Dutch Pippins, Greenings, Russets, etc., standing 35 to 40 feet apart - his soil sandy loam, annually plowed and cropped, being also heavily manured every year, and protected by woods on three sides.

He sold from these trees, after reserving his culls, in 1865, 163 barrels of apples for $779 50.

"Prescott Smead, of Bethany, Genesee County, from six acres, on clay and strong clay loam, sold as follows:

" Add to the above, copied from his income report (and reports of this kind are not apt to be overstated), apples used in the family, and we have 100 barrels to the acre, and 2½ barrels to the tree annually, for the whole six years, paying $400 per acre every year for the whole term.

"For practical cultivators there is another fact of great significance. This same orchard, after coming into full bearing for some ten years, received only ordinary care, which means scarcely any care at all, and its returns were very meagre. It was then heavily manured, plowed shallow, and suffered to lie one year; then cross - plowed and harrowed, and suffered to lie two years longer, all the time un-cropped; then it was manured again, and the same treatment repeated. The results were as has been stated.

" S. P. Lord, of Pavillion, bought a neglected, and, of course, unfruitful, orchard of seven acres - trimmed, manured, and plowed it, when it immediately commenced bearing, and during the next six years yielded $6,000.

"He recommended careful and moderate annual pruning where necessary, as contrasted with the too frequent slashing to which trees are subjected - keeping the heads of the trees low, which would favor ease in picking - objected strongly to the common neglect of cultivation, and also to the close cropping of the ground, in the attempt to obtain other products from the soil, the strength of which should be given to the trees. He cited cases where good clean culture had given high profits, and added that in nearly every instance where very large crops had grown on single trees, he had found those trees to stand near wood-piles, slop-grounds, barnyards, or on other spots where they received a good supply of enriching material.